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Who doesn’t love onion rings !!! At least I can’t resist myself jump at those golden rings of joy , no matter what is the time , whatever is my health condition or where I am !! I just had a gall bladder removal surgery and I’m strictly told not to indulge myself in any junk and fried foods !! These days , I feel bad looking at my kids , they are bored and is missing my handmade foods !! So what would be a great excuse than that !! Decided to make a bowl of happiness – onion rings !! After ten dull days , I think I deserve a little happiness..

5. Bake until toasted , around 15 minutes . Time may vary depending on the temperature.

Notes :

1. You can heat the olive oil for few minutes . Add the chopped garlic then . Use after it cools down . You get youe own garlic olive oil . 🙂

2. If you want to make them ahead of time , you can do it . Just don’t toast them . Cover them with a plastic or cling film and store in the freezer . Take them out and bake in the pre-heated oven , whenever you want . 🙂

2. Drain out the water and blend it in a coffee grinder without adding any water . I use my magic bullet , but if you don’t have magic bullet do it in a coffee grinder . Don’t blend it smooth . It should be half blended.

3. Add all other ingredients with it and keep it in the deep fridge while you heat the oil for frying .

4. Heat the oil and make round flat ball with the lentil mixture , put them in the hot oil and deep fry on medium low heat . Don’t try to turn over until they got brown otherwise the piyaju may fall apart!!!!!
Enjoy!!!!!!

Smörgåstårta is a Scandinavian , more specifically Swedish savory sandwich cake . It has several layers , most often , the bread used is light rye bread and layered with seafood , chicken , ham , bakon , egg , frosted with a creamy frosting and decorated with vegetables , seafood , egg or any food of your choice .

Now a days it has several versions . Use your imagination and taste bud to create this edible, beautiful piece of art . 🙂

Ingredients :

8 slices of sandwich bread
Lettuce leaves
Fillings

Filling # 1 :

Avacado and chicken salad :

Cut one avocado and scoop out the flesh . Mash well . Add some shredded chicken and mustard sauce in it . Sprinkle some salt if you wish . Ready .

1. You can add cream cheese in the frosting or can make the frosting with only cream cheese and sour cream . For that take 1 cup of cream cheese with half cup of sour cream and 2 tbl spoon of icing sugar together and beat well until creamy . Cream cheese should be of room temperature .

2. For the filling , you canuse tuna , egg or anything of your choice .

I love baking cakes and I love fish too . So how about something like savory cake or like meatloaf!!! I already have Tuna loaf recipe in my blog . You can take a look on that recipe too . Here’s the link of Tuna loaf recipe ,https://khadizaskitchen.com/2013/01/22/tuna-loaf/ . But this fish loaf recipe is completely different from the Tuna loaf recipe . I used Rohu fish , you can use any big fish . 🙂 The whole process has three parts . The first part involves boiling the fish pieces with little spice then debone them . Next step involves baking as a loaf and the third and final part is shallow frying in butter or oil . It tastes awesome . 🙂

4. Make a mixture of mayonnaise and garlic and white pepper . You can add little sugar in it too to sharpen the taste . Now put the mixture into every slits of the potato . Put some cheddar cheese too. Sprinkle some Italian seasoning over the potatoes .Now bake again in a pre-heated oven for 15 minutes at 400 FH .

I have experimented so many times before developing this recipe and alhamdulillah it turned out to be just perfect .For the restaurant style crispy fried chicken , you have to follow 3 simple steps !!! Often our fried chickens are dried out and becomes tasteless while frying and often the outside is not crispy at all , rather becomes very soggy !!! Here you go with some tricks , that would make the chicken , juicy and tender inside and at the same time the outer crust would be super crispy in Sha Allah!!! 🙂

Step 1:

Brine the chicken : That would make the chicken juicy and tender even after deep frying . It enhances the flavor too .

Prick the chicken pieces with a fork and soak them into the mixture of milk , yogurt , sugar and salt for at least 4 hours . The more the better . After 4 hours take the chicken pieces out of the mixture and pat dry with a kitchen towel .

1. Take out the chicken pieces from the marinade and coat in the coating mixture . Now this step is important . soak them all into the chilled water.

2. Now Again roll into the coating mixture . The coating should not be smooth . It should look like this

soaking into the chilled water would make the coating look crumbly . If your coating is crumbly , your chicken will be crispy . Rest the chicken pieces into the fridger for at least half n hour before frying .

3. Heat oil on medium low flame and then place the chicken pieces into the oil . The chicken should be submerged into oil . Don’t try to turn over until one side is golden brown . Fry both side very well . You can fry the chicken with lid on . But many times I forgot to do so . But that doesn’t really make any difference . The temperature of oil is very important to get the crispy crust .

Stromboli !! this is kind of folded Pizza , ingredients though Italian, usually salami , pepperoni , provolone cheese , mozarella, it is indeed originated in USA back in 50s and named after the famous Ingrid Bergman starred movie “Stromboli” by the Romanos in Philadelphia .

For Shredded chicken , just boil the chicken breast with soy sauce , ginger paste and whole black pepper . Dry out the water and shred the chicken pieces .

Procedure:

1. Combine all the ingredients ( that is flour , yeast , sugar , salt , milk powder , egg, 1 tbl spoon of ghee )except 4 tbl spoon oil . Now make a soft dough . Don’t make a hard , tight dough . The softer is your dough the , softer is the bread . So , you may need a little more milk too . First , the dough may seem very sticky . Now add the oil and knead . Now it will be easier to knead . Knead very well, so that the dough becomes glossy and smooth . The dough will come together and won’t stick any more . Knead for at least 10 minutes . The more you knead , the softer bread you get . If you find little sticky at the end , you may add little oil . Form the dough into a ball and rub some oil over it .

2. Now put the dough in a greased , closed lid box and place it in a warm place .. It may take an hour or more to get the dough double in volume . If it becomes fluffy and double in volume , the dough is ready to make the Stromboli. Sometimes it may get longer time to rise . Sometimes it takes almost 2 and half hour to rise up and to be fluffy . So don’t do anything until it rise up in volume and becomes fluffy .

3. Punch down all the air form the dough . Now roll out the dough into a square . The quantity mentioned in the recipe will make two 12″ long stromboli .Don’t use too much extra flour to roll out . It may make your bread hard . Just roll them on a slightly flour dusted counter top .

4.Spread pizza sauce over most of the dough, leaving a 2 inch border. Now arrange the stuffing demonstrated in the pic .

5. Brush with olive or any other vegetable oil , then brush with beaten egg . Sprinkle with Italian seasoning . Cover with a cling film and let it rise for another half n hour .

6. In the mean time pre-heat the oven at 400 FH or 200 centigrade . Bake the Stromboli for 15-20 minutes . it took me 17 minutes . May vary oven to oven . But don’t over bake , that would dry out the bread . 🙂 After removing from the oven rub some butter over it for soft and glossy look . This would keep your bread soft for a longer time .

Notes:

1. I have many followers living in Bangladesh and ask me to give the ingredients available in Bangladesh . Trust me , you will find every ingredients mentioned above in Bangladesh in big super stores . If you don’t find Provolone cheese , leave it . Mozzarella , cheddar is available .
If you don’t find the Italian seasoning , make your own with these ingredients , they are available in Bangladesh ;

1. Marinate the fillet strips with lemon juice and crushed black or white pepper . Make a batter with 2 eggs and 4 tbl spoon of all purpose flour . Add salt and little nutmeg powder . Now add the fish strips and allow to rest for at least half n hour to infuse the flavor .

2. Coat with bread crumbs and fry in a frying pan with enough oil . It shoud not be deep fried but must be fried with enough oil ..